Labi Siffre - Into The Light

If It Ain't Got That Swing

The day doesn’t fall, we shove it
Over the hills and far gun shots
Scream; the street cries
Blood streams from bags of lies

More fall to their knees in prayer mode
(Brown nosing always sells) by the time
The cops come we’ve stripped the bodies
Of cash keys shoes phones

Spiritual things we respect
In this hood; tradition flowers
On all four corners of the crosses we wear
Bouquets of jacked justification

"To smell the next crash
You have to live" we sneer
At battered wives "why don't you leave?"
So why don't we, homie?

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White Slavers In Dreadlocks

Beenie Man & Buju Banton, Sizzla, Tok and Elephant man
Vybz Kartel and Bounty Killer, Capleton why
You all degrade and weaken the black nation
‘Stead of trying to save 'em
From hatred and discrimination?

Cutting edge, brave and bold you claim, but in reality
You lame
Your salvation be to teach black children hatred
And discrimination of the other; that's no way to raise
Black sisters and brothers

Hatred and discrimination
They the tools the white man used to make us slaves
Clever of you to learn the slaver’s ways
It make you lot o money of course
It always does (no shock)
You learned that lesson well
(From Rupert Murdoch?)

Black brothers no, methinks not.
You just another jancro flock
Of slack White Slavers In Dreadlocks.

You preach hatred and discrimination against me
A gay black man who wrote
“Something Inside So Strong”
A song of defiance and self-affirmation
Written for black people, red people, gay people
Old people, women, children, the disabled
Every people suffering injustice

Righteous you quote your holy book
Like standard 'ypocrites & fascists
No surprise look see as usual you list selectively
Only those parts you need to sell your cowardice & bigotry
(We shouldn’t expect courage from you fellas
Who clearly lack the balls to follow Nelson Mandela)

No matter how high you fly you renk
Who raise yourselves by treading on others

Black brothers no, methinks not.
You just another jancro flock
Of slack White Slavers In Dreadlocks.
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